1990 Score Future Superstar Eric Lindros #440 was one of the hottest cards to find. In 1990, Eric Lindros was massively popular, almost mythic for a teenage hockey player. He wasn’t just the best prospect in hockey, he was viewed as the future of the sport. At 17, he dominated the World Junior Championship, overpowering older players with a rare mix of size, speed, skill, and mean streak that people hadn’t seen since Mario Lemieux. In Canada especially, he was everywhere—sports magazines, TV highlights, and nonstop debate about whether anyone should be that big and that talented. By the time the NHL Draft rolled around, Lindros wasn’t just the clear No. 1 pick, he was treated like a generational event, someone expected to change whichever franchise landed him. Even people who didn’t follow junior hockey knew his name, which says a lot for 1990.
